Me Quotes

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

What keeps me going is goals.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.